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For much of the United States, Detroit has become shorthand for failure--not just because of the dilapidation of the townâ€™s iconic industry, but because the entire metropolis seems like a dystopian disaster. It is the second-most-segregated metropolitan area in the country; the cityâ€™s population is 82 percent African American. No other American city has shed more people since 1950--Detroit is only half its former size. Its city government fails at the most basic tasks....